Quote of the day

From, appropriately, Dr Thomas D. Clark, late historian laureate for Kentucky:

Some historians undertake to simply open the grave and live in the past. I always felt that history was a living thing.

I share that view. That's one reason that local historical centres, oral history, documentaries, and the sort of 'living history' reenactments you see at some historical sites where you are presenting history to the populace is also, in so many ways, more important than writing dry books that might sit on dusty library shelves, because it brings a sense of history to the very people whose heritage it is, whose families have lived it, and shows them lessons to be learnt from such history and how their own lives play into the history around them.